2. I think my trouble with the idea of calling it reblogging is that it's a physical mechanism on a site that does a thing. So saying, well on DW it would be the intent of reblogging without the actual reblogging is just confusing and weird to me. I see what you're saying, but I think the term reblog comes preloaded with a lot of meaning (ie the thing that reblogging actually IS on tumblr) that I would not be surprised that continued use of it to mean "link" will continue to cause confusion and weirdness. (I don't think the nuance around reblog is carrying over especially well.)
3. Yeah, I jumped to a conclusion there. In that you're making a guide for ppl who haven't been on the site as long as we have, I think making it very, very clear about privacy settings (which tumblr influx people aren't used to) would probably be good.
4. Do you just link to the comment thread directly? Can random people then jump onto the comment thread and add their own things? Yes! You absolutely do that. I mean, probably not on a post about someone's puppy having cancer, but my random dick mushroom post example? If it's public, I assume it'll get linked around. I can always turn off comment notifs on that post if I get sick of them. But I think of comment notifs as like being your activity page on tumblr, more = better. Unless everyone's yelling at you, then not so much. Or link to the original, and repost your response from comments, as you like.
But I'm finding the subthread in this convo that people don't want interaction happening in their comments section frankly baffling. We live and breath for that kind of thing. Or so I thought anyway.
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Date: 2019-01-08 08:54 pm (UTC)3. Yeah, I jumped to a conclusion there. In that you're making a guide for ppl who haven't been on the site as long as we have, I think making it very, very clear about privacy settings (which tumblr influx people aren't used to) would probably be good.
4. Do you just link to the comment thread directly? Can random people then jump onto the comment thread and add their own things? Yes! You absolutely do that. I mean, probably not on a post about someone's puppy having cancer, but my random dick mushroom post example? If it's public, I assume it'll get linked around. I can always turn off comment notifs on that post if I get sick of them. But I think of comment notifs as like being your activity page on tumblr, more = better. Unless everyone's yelling at you, then not so much. Or link to the original, and repost your response from comments, as you like.
But I'm finding the subthread in this convo that people don't want interaction happening in their comments section frankly baffling. We live and breath for that kind of thing. Or so I thought anyway.